Trotsky’s take on the peasantry was wrong af though

All leftists are my comrades!

Except for those damn Trostskyists!

Who am I?

Wouldn’t a better joke be Tito? Nationalism was explicitly banned in Yugoslavia, whereas various left-wing nationalisms were cultivated in the USSR. Differing positions on the national question were part of what led to the Yugo-Soviet split

Except he immediately started mocking Platner, and talking about how ass backwards his story is the minute the tatto thing came out, and rightfully so because that shit’s crazy.

You don’t have to like the guy, but if this is “glazing” then words just don’t mean anything anymore.

don’t make me tap the sign

All my apes, Juche

the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization Zohran is apart of, is a big tent left organization that Includes everyone from reformist socialists to Marxist Leninists, to Anarchists and Maoists.

He isn’t conscious of that because that guy is a fucking dipshit who should think before he opens his mouth.

If we care about opposing fascism, the we ought to use words responsibly.

Aight, so Imma put on my grad school hat for a minute. ‘Maoism’ as a term, isn’t stuff Mao did, or things that happened in China in that period. Heck, it doesn’t really even come from Asia.

Maoism, or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, is an ideology which proclaims itself to be the next stage in the development of Marxism, and was codified, largely, by the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso), and the network of parties that it a part of, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.

It’s called Maoism because the PCP and the RIM were grappling with the legacy of the Chinese revolution, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Reform and Opening Up under Deng Xiaoping, etc.

Think of it like this, Jesus Christ was not a Christian. Jesus was a Jew, responding to the context of first century Roman Judea. Other people came along later, had a bunch of ideas about what the legacy of Jesus was, and what came out of that was Christianity. But if you hopped in your time machine and asked Jesus if he was a Christian, he would not have known what that meant.

Similarly, Marx was not a Marxist, Lenin was not a Leninist, etc. Other people had a lot of ideas about the legacies of these people, their ideas, and the revolutionary movements that they were apart of, and what develops are these ideological lineages.

So Maoism asserts that, for example, the experiences of the Mass Line, and Cultural Revolution (or at least the idea that class struggle persists under Socialism) from the Chinese experience, are universal lessons, applicable anywhere. Rather than being specific to China.

There’s more to it than that. But I really want to make it clear that Maoism is more than just “and then we kill all the sparrows and our grain harvest will collapse!”

So no, not close enough. We don’t get to throw around words, if we claim to care about opposing fascism. Don’t make me pull out the Sartre Quote.

We can, and should criticize the Trump admin, but we can do it in a way that doesn’t boil down to “what are we, a bunch of Asians?!”

Yeah, I’m writing a thesis right now about actual Maoism, and like… Really? That’s the phrase they chose?

Words used to fucking mean something!

It started a couple years ago when she went on a bizarre transphobic tirade, against the use of trans inclusive language. From there, it’s just been a long downward spiral.

The whole reason she’s on this conservative talk show is because she’s been making this rightward pivot

Genocide carries specific legal frameworks under international law, that ethnic cleansing doesn’t.

Words mean things.

The DSA has everyone from reformist soc dems, to anarchists, to MLs, to Maoist Third Worldists

That’s the DSA’s ultimate goal, my guy. Use DNC infrastructure to its advantage, and use that as a spring board to breaking with the Dems. At what point that happens is debated within the organization. But this guy will get his wish, sooner or later, especially if the DNC continues to have zero sense of self preservation

I’m just here to be apart of something.

Hi mom! I’m in the Lemmy struggle session thread of the week!!!

I think it’s a shame that his ideas had carried a public taint to them for so long, due to several authoritarians co-opting his message

While we might point to some Socialist experiments that succumbed to needless authoritarianism (for example, Romania), This is a view that looks at 20th century socialism, and collapses the experiences of these places. Just the former eastern bloc, for instance, is far more diverse, socially, and politically, than westerners often caricature it as.

The aforementioned example of Romania, with its horrific treatment of women, vs the comparatively very modern East Germany with its state-owned gay bars are in many respects, world apart. Collapsing these places with a blanket term of “authoritarian” and waving it away as all just an unfortunate shame, is unhelpful at best, and actively anti-intellectual at worst.

Not trying to diss the Manifesto but I never recommend it to people to read first. Everyone who I’ve met who isn’t a Comrade and only read the Manifesto always walk away saying the same shit about how it’s “a great idea but not realistic and there’s no real plan”

I think the reason people say this, when they read the Manifesto, is that it’s so fucking dense, that it can be hard to parse. particularly if you’re a random lib who has never tried to think dialectically before. So in lieu of grappling with the text and what it’s doing (a thing that I think is best done in a reading group setting, especially for new folks), they insert thought terminating cliche’s instead.

I understand what OP is saying, but I’m pointing out that it’s silly to take a philosophically rich, globe spanning, radical tradition and throw it aside as “a thing stupid children believe”, and use that as a thought terminating cliche to not engage with the tradition as it exists in the real world.

You don’t have to ascribe to Marxism. I happen to, but I would have posted the same bit if OP was ragging on Anarchism like that as well.

Side note, Cuba has changed quite a lot since Castro. I would encourage you to read up on the rewriting of the Cuban constitution, and the implementation of the new Family Code, both of which happened a few years ago, and are at the very least, interesting.

Yep, just a bunch of guys in their 20s…

Evola is kinda fun, for how utterly batshit he was. He called himself a Super-Fascist, and would go on walks during bombing raids to, “test his fate”. Like, buddy, your fate could be a lot different of you stayed the fuck inside?!

The bombs didn’t kill him, sadly.